Several email IDs and passwords from Hong Kong government agencies and public servants were available on the so-called dark web recently, according to a private detectives association, which warned of ...More
EJ Insight2018-05-07
A public housing project in Sham Shui Po is likely to see some of its rental flats being sold under the government’s Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme (GSH). The scheme aims to help low-inco ...More
EJ Insight2018-03-29
The shortage of beds and congestion in the in-patient and accident and emergency departments (A&E) of public hospitals went from bad to worse during the Lunar New Year holiday amid the raging flu ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-21
As public hospitals in Hong Kong continue to see extreme short supply of beds and their Accident and Emergency (A&E) services are still packed with long queues of patients, the worst may be yet to ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-20
A court in central Vietnam jailed a prominent environmental blogger for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials on duty, Reuters reports, citing his lawyer. Vietnamese activ ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-07
US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that it will move its embassy to the holy city. In doing so, Trump is breaking ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
According to government statistics, life expectancy in Hong Kong has continued to increase over the years, with men now expecting to live an average 81 years from birth while women 87 years, the longe ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-10
My heart just aches whenever I hear news of students taking their own lives. According to the third report published earlier this year by the Review Panel of the Pilot Project on Child Fatality Review ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-21
After sheltering many people for over five decades and bearing mute witness to changes in the city's social and economic vicissitudes, residential blocks at three of Hong Kong's earliest public housin ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
The Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (BTS) has relaxed the rules on gay men donating blood. The Hospital Authority (HA) said on Thursday that men who have not had sex with other men for a ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-15
It’s not uncommon that sites close to major highways and rail lines have been identified or rezoned for public housing, in an all-out land hunt to provide subsidized homes for the 300,000 applicants c ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
As our population is continuing to age, demand for public healthcare services is growing by leaps and bounds. In this situation, it is perhaps just a matter of time before our public hospitals and cli ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-05
